Operation Corporate - Air Battles over the Falklands

This is a reprint of the Falklands supplement published in 2005 for the FIRST EDITION of Air War C21. It has been reprinted due to a number of requests for copies of this long out of print title. The intention is to update this supplement during 2018 to reflect the latest edition of the rules. But for now, users of the latest edition can use the content here as a guide. And, as such, its "pay what you want"

Again?!
It just puts me away just reading that.
From the preview: "... argentines called the Harrier "the Black Death"..."
Really???
I´ve been in the Argentine Air Force for 23 years (from 1986 and retired on 2008, I flew Mirage 5 and Pucara) and never EVER found one pilot stating they called the Harriers That way. Not even once, and I am a avid reader of the Malvinas/Falklands war. Also had many many conversations with pilots that flew combat missions in the war. You really don´t know how people is here. It is almost a joke thinking somebody in Argentina would say... "We were shot down by the black Death..."

The Harrier was good, it really was. But of course! It had Radar, argentines didn´t, it had countermeasures, argentines didn´t. Also Argentines didn´t have radar warning, so they never had a clue there was a harrier behind them until it was too late. The mirages III performed well above 20000 feet, but air combat was a lot below that...See more altitude. So it was useless. Taht is way the Harrier got 20+ kills unharmed.
BUT, even having so many things that favoured them, the british navy got Air Superiority but never had Air Supremacy (google it if you don´t understand that). Argentine aircraft attacked until the very last day of combat.
But you didn´t write that...

Back to the original statement.
This is the typical media cheap propaganda many countries made use of. You really think the japaneese called the F4U the "Whistling Death". Better think of it as the tipical comment the media made us of just to level up local moral.
If you intend to write something in your book, please get informed by BOTH sides, and not only the british one. And if you include text that makes reference of the incredibly good performance of an aircraft, you should also add the relevant info (like the one I stated above concerning Argentine a/c) which clearly explains why what you say really happened.
I´m sorry, but as a customer, finding wrong references like this one, just puts as away from your book.

alejandro ADecember 21, 2017 4:55 pm UTC

Sorry, forgot something (related to the 20+ kills). The Harrier had in the beginning of the conflict the rear aspect Aim9J missile, but then the AIM 9M all aspect Sidewinder Missile, the most advanced air to air weapon to date.
The Mirages just couldn´t get in a turn fight with them.
Concerning the countermeasures (an improvised chaff system), in the end, they didn´t need it. Just one kill was in dogfight combat, after that, it was unescorted bomber missions what they succesfully attacked, with the support of ship based radar coverage from combat vessels (like the type 42 DD and many others).

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